There has always been a tsunami of crap written in the world. What’s new is that technological advancements such as the internet and ebooks allow us to see it out in the open.
The risk of typing directly into websites is that you have no ownership or control over the content unless it is specifically granted to you, and can't retrieve it if the site goes belly up. I use Microsoft Word and hand-written drafts to help prove my ownership if it is contested.
Oh, definitely. I don't encourage it at all. Alas, I've known more than few younger writers whose work got wiped out because their browser crashed, or worse, the site they were using shut down. I think the issue is that for them, there is no real concept of the difference between a "local" app and websites. Everything is a website to them, for the most part.
The risk of typing directly into websites is that you have no ownership or control over the content unless it is specifically granted to you, and can't retrieve it if the site goes belly up. I use Microsoft Word and hand-written drafts to help prove my ownership if it is contested.
Oh, definitely. I don't encourage it at all. Alas, I've known more than few younger writers whose work got wiped out because their browser crashed, or worse, the site they were using shut down. I think the issue is that for them, there is no real concept of the difference between a "local" app and websites. Everything is a website to them, for the most part.